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"They'd come down and hit a three, or we're playing defense for 35 seconds and they'd get a rebound or a loose ball and lay it in," Wright said. "That kind of took the breath out of us, and we just fed into it, instead of playing our game. After a while, they started to get more and more confident."
Curry put the Hoyas away with eight straight points down the stretch. He converted a three-point play -- cutting behind Rivers and scoring on a layup and free throw -- to give Davidson its first lead of the second half, 60-58, with 4:40 to play. He then scored on a drive and a three-pointer (his fifth of the game), and the Wildcats led, 65-60.
Those kind of plays led Rivers -- who has matched up against a slew of the country's top guards over the past two seasons (North Carolina's Ty Lawson, Memphis's Derrick Rose, Villanova's Scottie Reynolds, Syracuse's Jonny Flynn) -- to say that Curry is the best player that he's ever guarded. He added, "I don't even know how to say how good he is."
Unfortunately for the Hoyas, Hibbert, unlike Curry, was never able to get on track. A total of 47 fouls were called, and both Hibbert and Davidson senior forward Thomas Sander fouled out.
"I think I should've played a lot smarter than I did today," Hibbert said. "I thought I was posting up strong in the post, but they were calling fouls. . . . I'm just really sorry that I let my team down."
The Hoyas seemed stunned as they sat in their quiet locker room. Rivers held back tears as he talked about Georgetown's seniors: Hibbert, Wallace, Ewing and Tyler Crawford. The immediacy of the moment and the pain of the loss were too great for the seniors to reflect on what they had accomplished over their four seasons: three NCAA tournament appearances, two Big East regular season championships, one Big East tournament title and one Final Four.
"I'll remember how I went out. I went out with a loss," Crawford said. "All the great accomplishments we made, it's made us who we are now. But it doesn't mean anything if you don't win the big one."
